Economics

Human Ecology Economics

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A search for “human ecology” on the Google search engine produces an over- whelming 55 million results. A more traditional academic search, at the University of California, Berkeley library produces 903 references, which are scattered in various libraries ranging from Bioscience to Business and Economics and Environmental Design. Textbooks proposing to summarize this field include the early environmental-conservationist effort Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions (Ehrlich et al., 1973), and the recent Fundamentals of Human Ecology (Kormondy and Brown, 1998). The former focuses on “the biological and physical aspects of man’s present problems and on the ways that they can be solved,” (p. v) and the goal of the latter “is to present the fundamentals of ecology and their application to humans through an integrated approach to human ecology, blending biological ecology with social science approaches,” (p. xvii).
Much of this literature arose out of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and gained breadth through recent explosions of interdisciplinary activity within academic institutions. At the College of the Atlantic, Maine, founded in 1969, the only degree offered to students is in human ecology, “which indicates that students understand the relationships between the philosophical and fundamental principles of science, humanities, and the arts.”

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Human Ecology Economics

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Publisher

USA : Taylor & Francis e-Library., 2007

Collation

1-320

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-203-93964-6

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Edition

1st Edtion

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Economics

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